Tuesday, 1 April 2014

As of today, the copyrights to my remaining books
with Silver Publishing are back with me, and apart from the royalties owed to
me for the first quarter of this year, I no longer have any ties with that
publishing house. I have no idea whether I will ever receive those royalties,
but since the amount will almost certainly be small, I won't lose any sleep over
it.

I can only speak for myself, and others have already
written eloquently about those events. The anger I felt has long since passed,
leaving only sadness. The editors, the cover artists, the administration
backroom staff were among the best in the business and to see such great
potential scarred by events outside of their control is a grievous thing.

Still, life goes on. Those books, Finders, Keepers, Paradox, Dark Waters,
and my m/f paranormal romance Argent
Dreaming, will all be self-published under my Kouros Books label over the
next three weeks, starting off with Dark
Waters and Argent Dreaming. Two
of them have truly great covers by Meredith Russell, two I have made myself and
I'm pretty pleased with the result. I won't ask people to guess which is which
- it's rather obvious *G*

Once all this is behind me, I hope I can settle down
to a proper writing routine. While I will readily admit to being 1] too easily distracted,
and 2] a very slow writer, it's also 3] a case of being in a state of limbo
that caused a certain amount of uncertainty and worry, neither of which are
conducive to creativity and concentration.

But I have Plans. *Nods*. I have so many Works in
Progress it isn't funny, and at least half of them will be self-published.
Others will be offered to my existing publishers, and some to at least two
new-to-me publishers.

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